Illness Movies

Dusan and Laza are traveling through Eastern Serbia to Belgrade. Terminally ill, Dusan has to find a new home for his son Laza, to whom Dusan is all...

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

Vince is a 13-year-old drummer. His father, Fred, is 48, and a faded guitarist and singer rock "star." He’s going to play with him one of his...

Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It's a question of life, death and karaoke.

Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her...

A struggling actor's life is turned upside down when his estranged mother appears on his doorstep with a terminal illness.

A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.

Andrea is devastated after learning her sister has leukemia, but a closer look will reveal that there is something hidden in her psyche.

Day after day, an elderly woman recalls the Spanish Basque country of her youth — while forgetting she is consigned to a retirement home in...

A fisherman's daughter has to accept her father's disease when she arrives at her childhood home and finds her father vulnerable and fragile.

Lotte (18) and Roos (16) are sisters and both have Usher syndrome. That means they will soon become deaf and blind. It is not known how fast that...

A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both...

A mysterious outbreak of tic disorders among young people leads Dr Robert Bartholomew to question whether social media is making us sick. Doctors...

A family tragedy during the recession of 2008, catalyzed by unemployment, personal crisis, and illness.

In a tuberculosis-clinic a young patient steels the hearts of her fellow patients.

A teachers assistant, trapped in a small town with a strange illness, takes on a local missing persons case aided by a Pale Man down the hall.

Adaptation of Mayu Ohara's autobiography.

On the eve of her husband’s birthday, Esther struggles to come to terms with an impending event.